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"Put him on my phone, Miss Hil es. I'l talk to him. . . and, by the way, put a social engagement on my engagement pad. . .

January fifteenth at five o'clock. . . reception Miss Myra Bingham, 36 Central Park South."

NEWSREEL LXVIII

WALL STREET STUNNED

This is not Thirty-eight but it's old Ninety-seven

You must put her in Center on time

-519-MARKET SURE TO RECOVER FROM SLUMP

Decline in Contracts

POLICE TURN MACHINE GUNS ON

COLORADO MINE STRIKERS

KILL 5 WOUND 40

sympathizers appeared on the scene just as thousands of office workers were pouring out of the buildings at the lunch hour. As they raised their placard high and started an indefinite march from one side to the other, they were jeered and hooted not only by the office workers but also by workmen on a build-ing under construction NEW METHODS

OF SELLING SEEN

Rescue Crews Try To Upend Il -fated Craft While

Waiting For Pontoons

We looked 'round an' said to his black greasy fireman Jus' shovel in a little more coal And when we cross that White Oak Mountain

You can watch your Ninety-seven rol

I find your column interesting and need advice. I have saved four thousand dol ars which I want to invest for a better income. Do you think I might buy stocks?

POLICE KILLER FLICKS CIGARETTE AS HE

GOES TREMBLING TO DOOM

PLAY AGENCIES IN RING OF SLAVE

GIRL MARTS

Maker of Love Disbarred as Lawyer

Oh the right wing clothesmakers

And the Socialist fakers

They make by the workers. . .

Double cross

They preach Social-ism

But practice Fasc-ism

To keep capitalism

By the boss

-520-MOSCOW CONGRESS OUSTS OPPOSITION

It's a mighty rough road from Lynchburg to Danvil e An' a line on a three mile grade It was on that grade he lost his average

An' you see what a jump he made

MILL THUGS IN MURDER RAID

here is the most dangerous example of how at the decisive moment the bourgeois ideology liquidates class solidarity and turns a friend of the workingclass of yesterday into a most mis-erable propagandist for imperialism today RED PICKETS FINED FOR

PROTEST HERE

We leave our home in the morning

We kiss our children goodby

OFFICIALS STILL HOPE FOR RESCUE

OF MEN

He was goin' downgrade makin' ninety miles an hour

When his whistle broke into a scream

He was found in the wreck with his hand on the throttle An' was scalded to death with the steam

RADICALS FIGHT WITH CHAIRS AT

UNITY MEETING

PATROLMEN PROTECT REDS

U.S. CHAMBER OF COMMERCE URGES CONFIDENCE

REAL VALUES UNHARMED

While we slave for the bosses

Our children scream an' cry

But when we draw our money

Our grocery bil s to pay

PRESIDENT SEES PROSPERITY NEAR

Not a cent to spend for clothing

Not a cent to lay away.

-521STEAMROLLER IN ACTION AGAINST

MILITANTS

MINERS BATTLE SCABS

But we cannot buy for our children

Our wages are too low

Now listen to me you workers

Both you women and men

Let us win for them the victory

I'm sure it ain't no sin

CARILLON PEALS IN SINGING TOWER

the President declared it was impossible to view the in-creased advantages for the many without smiling at those who a short time ago expressed so much fear lest our country might come under the control of a few individuals of great wealth HAPPY CROWDS THRONG CEREMONY

on a tiny island nestling like a green jewel in the lake that mirrors the singing tower, the President today participated in the dedication of a bird sanctuary and its pealing caril on, ful-fil ing the dream of an immigrant boy THE CAMERA EYE (51)

at the head of the val ey in the dark of the hil s on the broken floor of a lurchedover cabin a man halfsits halflies propped up by an old woman two wrinkled girls that might be young chunks of coal flare in the hearth flicker in his face white and sagging as dough blacken the cavedin mouth the taut throat the bel y swel ed enor-mous with the wound he got working on the minetipple the barefoot girl brings him a tincup of water the

-522-woman wipes sweat off his streaming face with a dirty denim sleeve the firelight flares in his eyes stretched big with fever in the women's scared eyes and in the blanched faces of the foreigners

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